Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria

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Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria
Basic data
Rite church Coptic Catholic Church
Country Egypt
Diocesan bishop Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak
Curia Bishop Youhanna Golta
Hani Bakhoum Kiroulos
Emeritus diocesan bishop Antonios Cardinal Naguib
founding August 15, 1824
rite Coptic rite
Liturgical language Coptic
Suffragan dioceses Alexandria
Assiut
Gizeh
Ismayliah
Luxor
Minya
Abu Qurqas
Sohag
Coptic Catholic Cathedral in Cairo

The Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria ( Latin Patriarchatus Alexandrinus Coptorum ) is the patriarchate of the Coptic Catholic Church, which is united with the Roman Catholic Church and is based in Cairo in Egypt. The patriarchal jurisdiction extends over all Catholic Copts in the world. However, there are no Coptic Catholic eparchies outside of Egypt.

history

In 1741 the Coptic Bishop of Jerusalem, Amba Athanasius , converted to Catholicism . Pope Benedict XIV appointed him Vicar Apostolic of a small congregation (2,000 people) who followed him in his subordination to the Pope. Although Athanasius later returned to the Coptic Orthodox Church , a line of Roman Catholic Vicars Apostolic continued after him. On March 20, 1815, Pius VII raised the Apostolic Vicariate to the rank of diocese with the Breve Apostolatus officium and the vicars then had to be ordained bishops. With the Bull Petrus Apostolorum , Pope Leo XII. on August 15, 1824 a patriarchate for the Coptic Catholics, which existed only on paper. However, the Ottoman authorities allowed the Catholic Copts to build their churches in 1829. The Latin Patriarchate of Alexandria also remained vacant until 1847 due to this Coptic patriarchate.

After a number of Vicars Apostolic Appointed Pope Leo XIII. on March 15, 1895 the priest George Makarios, who took the name Cyril, as Apostolic Vicar and Titular Archbishop of Caesarea Philippi . After his election, Makarios led a pilgrimage of the Coptic Catholics to Rome and requested that their patriarchy be restored. The Pope accepted this with the Bull Christi Domini on November 26, 1895 and again established the Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria. In addition to the patriarchal seat in Cairo, the patriarchate had two suffragan dioceses :

The number of Coptic Catholics began at that time with around 5,000 people and grew rapidly, so that the patriarchate already comprised 14,576 believers in 1907 and the number reached 80,580 in 1959. In order to create a new order for the patriarchy, a synod was held in Cairo in 1898 , the resolutions of which were later revised and approved in Rome. Bishop Kyrill was promoted to first patriarch in the consistory of June 19, 1899. After several years of apostolate difficulties arose, so in 1908 he resigned and returned to the Coptic Orthodox Church. Thereafter, the patriarchate remained vacant and was administered by an Apostolic Administrator until August 10, 1947 , when a patriarch was again elected.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.terrasanta.net/tsx/articolo.jsp?wi_number=4727&wi_codseq=
  2. ↑ http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsidrak.html
  3. ↑ Philippe Bountry: VI - pontificale Chapelle . In: Souverain et pontife. Recherches prosopographiques sur la Curie Romaine à l'âge de la Restoration (1814–1846) . École française de Rome, Rome 2002, VI.1.2 - Patriarche latin d'Alexandrie (French, online edition [accessed July 12, 2019]).